Baxter v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is a compensation case. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company and Emery Baxter, employee, were operating within the workmen’s compensation law of Kansas.

Emery Baxter, it appears, was employed by the railway company in various capacities for several years, mostly in track work. Part of the time he was a section foreman, at other times he was a foreman of an extra gang. There was a point on the railroad near Prairie View where a culvert had originally been placed, consisting of five sections of 36-inch cast-iron pipe,…